BigShoes

BigShoes hasn’t had a rant in a long while so I’m going to rant away. I should actually call this post FedEx Sucks since I actually found that out of all the hassles of car buying, expecting that FedEx could find a residential house on a major road is plain and simple expecting too much.

Car buying was a breeze, especially since 90 percent of the time was my husband sending emails to dealerships asking for quotes on what he specifically wanted. About 8 percent was spent on blowing off dealers who weren’t interested in giving you a quote on what you asked for as much as they were interested in strong arming you to visit their dealership or in having you tell them what you wanted to spend. Look my husband and I want to spend $0, what do you think about that?

Wake up salesmen, it is the internet age. Give the people what they want or they will not bother with you. Don’t waste my husband’s time; don’t call incessantly without giving us a quote and don’t try to find out what we can afford so you can sell us more than what we asked for.

Well car buying would have gone smoothly in the last two percent of the process if not for FedEx. One percent was spent visiting one dealership and picking and buying the car without the hassle of visiting the ten or more places my husband asked for a quote on. The last percent of purchasing a car was waiting for FedEx to send the title for the car we were trading in that we immediately paid off days before our purchase.

Imagine our surprise when we were told FedEx claimed our address was incorrect. I’ve been living at my address long enough to know what my address is. Imagine even greater surprise when the company informed our bank that they wouldn’t send out the title regular mail because FedEx returned it to them as an incorrect address. So FedEx is the be all and end all of what constitutes a valid address? Insert many expletives at this point.

What can I say, FedEx sucks. It wasn’t even a month prior that they were trying to find the same address to deliver a dang part for the car we had to get rid of. The part was late and there were some cryptic messages for the driver regarding the address taped to the box. Obviously it wasn’t incorrect then and someone finally was successful in delivering that package although they weren’t clear on what the problem was finding us.

As someone with extensive knowledge in direct mail it seems to me an address is incorrect if you bring it to the house and someone says “sorry, you have the wrong address.” Duh. I called and angrily complained with them about their service. Don’t they ask neighbors if they can’t find a place? Why don’t they call when they are looking for your address? I used to work for a company that used FedEx and I know we had to always have a phone number on the form. PLEASE it is not for decoration.

Imagine my surprise when I searched FedEx sucks online. Yes, they are that bad. Search FedEx and incorrect address and you will fall over laughing. If there are that many incorrect address complaints there is something seriously wrong with your freaking service. I like the stories where people at home get nobody home for delivery notices and then there is no further attempt and all of a sudden it is an incorrect address. How convenient.

FedEx actually needs a new return message that says undeliverable due to “incompetent service”. They can add a number for how incompetent they believe they are on a scale from one to ten, trust me, you’re a ten if you can’t find the nearest FedEx hub to return a package to.

But all that aside, the company who is holding the title to my car, their policy not to send something via mail because FedEx sucks is beyond comprehension. It is the most asinine thing I’ve ever heard of.

Luckily our bank didn’t charge us for the FedEx service that we never received, however the dealership was probably out of money since they had to try to get the title from the DMV.

My message to all readers, boycott any service provider that sucks. I’ve told FedEx I will ask every business I purchase from if they use FedEx. If they do I will not do business with them. There would be no point because they can’t find my house, even though it is on Google maps and the USPS has assigned me a zip 4 and everything. Here is one blogger who won’t be complaining when they raise the price of stamps. At least the post office knows where I live.

I’m going to conveniently forget how old I was when Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall came out, especially as I celebrate a birthday and feel old enough already since one of the stars of my youth…back when he was a celebrity for the right reasons…has passed on at a fairly young age of 50. Really, that is young, but maybe not for stars like Michael Jackson or Elvis Presley and the like…wait I don’t know much of what I’m talking about because there will never be more like that with the exception of John Lennon. Stars like these are few and far between these days.

Yes it was a birthday long ago that I had two wishes. I wanted Billy Joel’s Glass Houses and Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall. I didn’t have a stereo, but would you believe you could get those albums in 8-track. Those were the days, I wonder if Michael Jackson thought the same.

Here’s a great Off the Wall Medley from YouTube.

I have to close May out with some shoe related topic since it is the weekend who would believe what was posted a few days ago on YouTube related to shoes…try big shoes, literally big shoes…REALLY BIG SHOES! Big shoes, as in made the Guinness Book of World Records BIG SHOES.

Okay, so you’re thinking, sure some people have really big feet; maybe they need really big shoes. Well the tallest man in medical history had feet 18 ½ inches long and I believe that he could actually sleep in what you are about to see.

Some of the comments on YouTube are commenting “big deal”, however it is a big deal. These shoemakers have made real big shoes that a sizeable person (scaled to fit in them) could wear comfortably. Hey, everybody deserves well made shoes. This is a skill not to be laughed at people.

Of course I wonder what will happen in a thousand years or so when someone unearths these bad boys…

If someone told me the last time I posted that I wouldn’t post again for another month I wouldn’t have believed it. Of course I’ve had a few breaks like these here and there and well, what can I say, here I go again. My shoes these days are busy shoes and in the evening they are tired shoes that I’ve kicked off and can’t find in the morning because I really don’t want to put them on.

So I took my daughter shopping and she had to get some shoes so naturally I walked by my Sonoma sandals that I love so much and which I needed a new pair of… so I have new shoes, okay sandals. And in these shoes I’m certain I will slip into summer comfortably, it won’t be less busy, it won’t keep me from getting tired, I’ll just have comfy feet. That I can deal with, as long as it does not require socks…I’m all about big shoes, not big socks.

How about something from the late great Kirsty MacColl. Here’s Kirsty MacColl from Tropical Brainstorm.

What is in a name? More than I can tell you that’s for sure but I was never short on words when it came to names. Which names? Celebrity baby names, Social Security most popular names, hurricane names and my own name.

I ask you, where do you want to start? Why baby names? Well pretty much these are my rants on shame on the government spending tax money to share the most popular names, shame on the “media” for grading celebrity baby names, shame on those that name hurricanes and shame on parents who need a license to name their children something not too embarrassing.

Do I think it is important? Yes and no and when you read these posts you’ll see why. This is one of those topics I receive numerous, sometimes bizarre hits on, especially the Social Security Baby Names post. I’ll recommend some cool baby name books for you so you don’t have to rely on the government for what’s in and what’s not in baby names…and always remember, parents, even celebrities can make bad baby name choices. Please, name your child with caution.

Social Security Baby Names
Pitt and Jolie Baby Names Make the Grade
Hello Dolly
Talula Does the Hula and the Name Game